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# Find Your (In)voice: Emacs for Invoicing
Bala Ramadurai
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Ye Freelance warriors, please lend me your I/O devices for 5 minutes.
Your time is your money! Do you find it a pain to generate an invoice,
record the details into your accounting software and keep track of
taxes and payments? You are not alone, I found the whole invoice
thingy to be extremely painful.
But worry not, Emacs comes to our rescue.
My talk will give you a basic intro on how to use org mode, some embedded python code and file jugglery to generate stylistic and professional invoices.
What you will learn during the session:
- How to track your freelance time using orgmode
- How to create the basic infrastructure for invoice generation
- How to generate the invoice
- How to manage multiple clients
- How to enter the finance details into your accounting software
- How to track invoice payments
We will use the following packages:
- Emacs+orgmode (duh?)
- yasnippet
- python layer (I use spacemacs, so whatever is the equivalent in your config)
- Some unnecessary Shakespearean references
# Discussion
- okay, this is some next level invoicing automation!
- The accounting system transactions are a nice touch
- it's really hard to tell that came from org :)
- European format would be DD.MM.YYYY and not with dashes which can be mixed up with ISO or other formats. in the UK it's often with slashes: DD/MM/YYYY
- From [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b__d04aHEbI&feature=em-comments): This looks great! Much better than my amateurish attempts. Thanks!!!
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